Week in Review #3

I am so tired. I don't know if I've mentioned this before or not but I'm a freelance graphic artist that is slowly but surely building up her base. Which I love more than anything because it allows me to do what I love as a job. But whew, does it catch up to you some days. I'll be chugging along, drinking my iced tea, doing something for a client and then bam where oh where is my bed? *laughs* I hit the wall Wednesday.

My boyfriend thinks it's cute (he's very odd what can I say?) because I get completely zombie like. We're talking that if someone looked at my brain waves they'd put me down faster than Darrell could put an arrow in his bow!

You know you're tired when...I own an iced tea maker. Don't laugh it's awesome! And I thought ok time to make some tea, gotta perk yourself up. So I do all the prep, hit start and go back to my computer. About 20 minutes later I wander into the kitchen and think, huh...why is my iced tea clear? I actually stood there and pondered this for a minute before I realized sitting right next to the tea maker was the basket where the actual tea bags were. Yep, I had just brewed a whole pitcher of hot water. Lovely clear, hot water.

Needless to say, I went to bed early that night and we had pizza delivered for dinner!

Anyhow, I'm feeling a bit more perky so YAY for that and I thought I'd show some of the stuff that's been amusing me this week.

Phone covers.

I have a horrid phone. I very rarely call or text because I'm always on my computer and everyone knows that they can just email me or catch me on chat and this is why I haven't changed my phone. I know that if I had a phone I could change the cover on, I'd have about a billion of them. So here are some of the phone covers I found that I LOVED.

Are you kidding me? I've seen the original of this movie so many times I can practically recite it word for word! How cute is this? 

It's a phone for your phone! I would so set the ringer to old timey brrrrrng bbrrrrrrng.

Anyone for Belle showing her love for Beast ala tattoos?

Or how bout some of my own art? I do photomanipulations as well as the little fiends I show on here. I might post that artwork on here as well because I don't really have a spot that I actually talk about it but we'll see. 

And last but not least my favorite for this week because I am a massive Supernatural geek and if you haven't seen the show YOU MUST!!!

A reminder, if you liked any of these just click on the pictures and it will take you to where you can buy them if you'd like. :)

So that's me, done for the evening. I promise when I get a few minutes to update more often. Anyhow have a great week!

Week in Review #2: A finished project for a friend.

So this week I finished up a project for a friend. She saw my dragon that I had done and requested that I did something similar with a picture of another friend. Now realize that I actually just started drawing actual people like this recently. I've always been able to draw people but usually without faces and not cartoony at all. So I'm pretty darned pleased with how she came out. 

First I had to draw her just using basic Strathmore Bristol paper that I bought at Michael's with a 4H Kimberly pencil. I really need to invest in some better drawings pencils at some point but for most of what I do they work well enough.  You'll notice that it's pretty much just the outline of her, no shading or anything. I wanted a clear line version of her because for me it's just easier to color in Illustrator.  

 

So then I took her into Illustrator and did all her color. I started with the base colors on all the parts and built up from there. The hardest parts are getting the different color tones in the correct place so that you don't see any one specific spot but it still makes up the shape of her body and dress naturally. 

I just recently retaught myself Illustrator so I'm really at pretty much the bottom rung of what can be done but I'm gonna keep plugging at it so hopefully I'll get better. I think she came out pretty well considering what a newb I am. The heart was also done in Illustrator.

 And finally brought her into Photoshop and finished her up. A little texture and gradient to make her a bit more snazzy. Divine is actually a burlesque performer so it really needed to have a little zing. It takes awhile to get patterns to look good together without them clashing or overpowering each other but I think I did a pretty good job with her. What do you think?

Week in Review #1

I'm gonna try this new week in review thing. I'm not sure how exciting I am so I'll probably do favorite stuff for the week and what I ran across in my meanderings around the internet that I liked. That and post any new sketches. I tend to doodle quite a bit so yep.

Anyhow this week I tried very valiantly to not bust out my baseball bat and hit a home run with my PC. I'm not exactly rolling in even coinage so my PC is old. OLD. Unfortunately this results in my computer not wanting to save large files in Photoshop. Which, since I do book covers and graphic art for my day job, is not really a good thing. So the hard drive is being wiped this weekend and reformatted. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

That said I thought I'd post up some doodles I've been doing. I haven't had a lot of time to work on anything lately because of the computer issues but I can still scan! I can do other things still, it just takes longer which drives me batty.

I actually did this one a while back. I'm a huge Star Trek fan and was watching it and thinking to myself about how they tout peace in it all the time and in reality all they do is go around getting into other people's business. Granted they help solve it in the end but I'd say they cause more mayhem than anything! (yes I know it's a t.v. show) So I wanted to draw something that was more indicative of what I think Star Fleet really is...Anarchy in a nice shiny badge! I actually made a transfer of this and made a tshirt for my boyfriend also which of course I don't have a picture of at the moment. As soon as I take one I'll post it. 


I've also finished completely my dragon Smaug's Brother, (you can see the previous versions here )have I mentioned I have a hellish time doing backgrounds? I know it looks simple but it's like pulling teeth for me. Anyhow, I think he looks pretty cute! I'm thinking he might need a t-shirt, anyone else think so?

I also made a bunny, he's really at the very base level right now so that's why there are no frills or textures yet. I've already got a drawing with him in a Sherlock hat and scarf, and one of him in a Star Trek shirt. He'll probably end up in a bunch of fandom outfits.

Other than that, it's been school (I'm working on getting my B.A.), book covers, and everyday life. Yep, I'm pretty darn exciting aren't I?